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21 Dec 2011, 2:50 am

I don't know it depends on what I get out of it other than feeling guilty, because that does not seem worth it......if they could not offer me anything to help with the terrible psychological pain I would be in then I guess I would opt to off myself rather than commit the genocide.

Realistically I have no clue what I would do in that situation I would like to say there is no way in hell I'd ever commit this genocide to save myself......but I don't really know I would have to be in that situation to find out.


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21 Dec 2011, 3:38 am

metaphysics wrote:
Why hitherto everyone here has chosen to kill him/herself?

Do you think that ourselves are rather unworthy compare to a whole ethnic group?

Even this question could hardly be real, thinking about more reasons for our choices is actually harmless.


The balance of a human life, mere decades at most, compared to an entire culture?

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Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.
~Marcus Aurelius quoting Epictetus.


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21 Dec 2011, 4:28 am

Nexus wrote:
I'd opt for killing the entire human race. Why? No witnesses. :twisted:


Do you plan to be safely in orbit when it happens?

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21 Dec 2011, 4:29 am

I'm thinking, I'm thinking......

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21 Dec 2011, 4:55 am

Depends on who I'm supposed to be wiping out... :D


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21 Dec 2011, 6:59 am

ruveyn wrote:
Nexus wrote:
I'd opt for killing the entire human race. Why? No witnesses. :twisted:


Do you plan to be safely in orbit when it happens?

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I plan to take my chances, and if I die, well I guess I deserved it didn't I? :wink:


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21 Dec 2011, 8:18 am

No. But I might commit homicide.

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21 Dec 2011, 8:30 am

ruveyn wrote:
No. But I might commit homicide.

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Yes, as long as it's not a random choice made by someone else.



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25 Dec 2011, 12:23 am

GoonSquad wrote:
metaphysics wrote:
Why hitherto everyone here has chosen to kill him/herself?

Do you think that ourselves are rather unworthy compare to a whole ethnic group?

Even this question could hardly be real, thinking about more reasons for our choices is actually harmless.


The balance of a human life, mere decades at most, compared to an entire culture?

Quote:
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.
~Marcus Aurelius quoting Epictetus.

Ja... However, "an entire culture" is also different from an ethnic group. Even an ethnic group be annihilated, its culture could still survive...What do you think? But if you meant the living culture..it would be different..



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25 Dec 2011, 2:32 pm

metaphysics wrote:
Not the entire human race. Only one ethnic group.

But since you have opted to do so, this could be another new option, as the other question did not say the entire human race.

But how could one live without any other human beings? I am so curious!


The reason I picked genocide as opposed to killing the whole species is because misanthropy is quite socially acceptable as a belief to hold, while racism is taboo. Generally speaking people are more comfortable with the idea of causing the end of the whole species than with singling out one race/group. I also think genocide gives a better idea in the mind of what it would be like to cause the death of every man, woman, child, senior than the abstract impersonal idea of 'destroying the world'.